Abstract
An experiment was planned and undertaken to obtain further evidence on the association of the Lolium endophyte (a fungus parasitic in some perennial ryegrass) with the occurrence of ryegrass staggers in sheep (Fletcher & Harvey, 1981). In the experiment, 39 sheep grazing four plots established with perennial ryegrass seed (Lolium perenne) highly (>90%) infected with the endophyte all developed clinical ryegrass staggers over a 26 day grazing period. The same number of sheep grazing plots established from seed found to have negligible (
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