2.3. 1000-seed weight
At harvest, the seeds were carefully cleaned and freed
from dirt, stones, chips and other extraneous grain or
dirt. From each sample, 1000 seeds were counted ran-
domly in triplicate and their weight was recorded.
2.4. Non-soakers and hydration coecient
For each treatment, 1000 seeds were selected at ran-
dom and soaked in tap water at a ratio of 1 part to 4
parts of water for 16 h. The percentage of non-soakers
in each sample was calculated after sorting and weigh-
ing of non-soaker seeds.
The non-soakers percentage was calculated as fol-
lows: