if you supply your seeds with all environmental for instance, light, moisture, nutrients, temperature.... with out achieving that mean your seeds in rest ...... either growth inhibitors such as ABA, Phaseic acid, para coumaric acid..... and other phenol derivatives.... or Cyanic.
Jerry M. Baskin and Carol C. Baskin 1990Germination Ecophysiology of Seeds of the Winter Annual Chaerophyllum Tainturieri: A New Type of Morphophysiological Dormancy Journal of Ecology Vol. 78, No. 4,pp. 993-1004
Carol C. Baskin, Jerry M. Baskin. 2014. Seeds: Ecology, Biogeography, and, Evolution of Dormancy and Germination Elsevier,Pp. 1600. ISBN0124166830, 9780124166837
In seed technology there has been no test to discriminate the level of seed dormancy in the working sample. However, some indication can be found in the variability within the sample of newly harvested seeds. Some indications can be achieved based on the plant family. Please, you can access the following address for more information: