After sowing, each treatment described above was kept in germinators at temperatures of 20, 25, 30 oC and 20-30 oC (16 h at 20 oC and 8 h at 30 oC, every 24 h) under light for eight hours a day. Daily counts were performed of the number of normal seedlings obtained each day to determine the accumulated germination curves, so as to identify the best times to perform the first and second counts. Seedlings were also illustrated and criteria were established for classifying them as normal or abnormal. The following evaluations were made: