The present study aimed to characterize the water absorption curve in atemoya seeds (Annona cherimola Mill x Annona squamosa L.) cv. Gefner, submitted to three imbibitions methods: seeds submerged in distilled water (MSSA), seed placed betwen paper filter imbibed with distilled water inside a gerbox box (MPEA) and standard test, with seeds kept in roll of filter paper moistened with water (MTP). The experimental delineation was entirely randomized, with 6 treatments and 4 repetitions of 25 seeds per parcel. The treatments were submitted to three imbibitions methods, with live and deth seeds. The imbibition time among 27, 34 and 47 hours, in the MTP, MPEA and MSSA methods represented an indicative for seeds treatment, which could possibly function as a minimal time needed for imbibition in solution with vegetal regulators. The MTP and MPEA were the methodologies that provided a better curve characterization, with changes between phases I and II after 27 and 34 hours, and reaching the phase III after 234 hours, which suggests the immersion time for seeds treatments.
Annonaceae; germination phases; imbibition methods
