“…The induction temperature was standardized as 36 to 46°C at the rate of increase 2°C per hour.The reports suggest that genetic variability cannot be visualized when the plants are directly exposed to severe stress but only upon acclimation to prior severe stress (Fender and O' Cornell, 1990). The observed higher recovery growth of induced seedlings is mainly because of altered metabolism in response to acclimation as seen in sunflower (Kumar et al, 1999;Senthil Kumar et al, 2006), in sorghum (Howarthand skot, 1994), in beans (Keeler et al, 2000), in wheat (Burke, 1994(Burke, , 1998, and in groundnut (Srikanthbabu et al, 2002). …”