DISCUSSION
Seeds generally germinate readily on imbibition of water if they are harvested at the right time, dried properly and aptlystored, either immediately or after a period of dormancy depending on the species.
Ninety to hundred percentage germination could be achieved when seeds were treated with 80% H2SO4 at 600C and 0.5 % KNO3 at 500C for 5 minutes. An increase in temperature upto 500C for all treatments was found to be effective for increasing the germinability of the seeds. 700C was found to be supraoptimal for seed germination except in 0.1 % KNO3, which gave the maximum response of 60 % at 700C. Solanki and Joshi [4], has reported the detrimental effect of temperature above 650C on germination when H2SO4, GA3 and KNO3 were used.