“…Therefore, several studies have been conducted to estimate the repeatability (ρ̂) of characteristics of interest in forage plants including Urochloa spp. (Basso et al, 2009;Souza Sobrinho et al, 2010;Teixeira et al, 2011;Martuscello et al, 2013;Matias et al, 2016;Coêlho et al, 2018;Figueiredo et al, 2019), Megathyrsus maximus (Martuscello et al, 2007;Braz et al, 2015;Martuscello et al, 2015;Coêlho et al, 2018;Ferreira et al, 2019), Medicago sativa L. (Botrel et al, 2000;Ferreira et al, 2010), Pennisetum purpureum Schum. (Shimoya et al, 2002;Rodrigues et al, 2020), and Lolium multiflorum Lamarck (Rios et al, 2019).…”