“…Finally, in herbage grasses, most work relating to the relationships between ecological and agronomic traits has been aimed at perennial ryegrass in Europe (studies undertaken by the Welsh Plant Breeding Station: Breese, 1966, 1968;Lorenzetti et al, 1971;Tyler andChorlton, 1976, 1978;Tyler et al, 1984;Humphreys and Eagles, 1988) and also in New Zealand (Forde and Suckling, 1980). But some studies have also been performed on cocksfoot (Tyler, 1979;Lumaret, 1984) and tall fescue (Veronesi and Falcinelli, 1988 Charmet et al, 1990).…”