BELLEVUE REED CANARYGRASS (PHALARIS-ARUNDINACEA L)

Bellevue is a cultivar of reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea L.) d eveloped by the Plant Science Department at the Macdonald Campus of Mc Gill University, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec. It was developed by ph enotypic selection from introduced lines for vigour, seed retention an d low alkaloid concentrations, followed by half-sib progeny testing fo r forage yield. In forage dry matter, it yielded 101% of the check cul tivar Vantage over 18 station years in the trials of the Quebec forage testing network. Bellevue is free of the tryptamine and carboline alk aloids, and has moderate concentrations of gramine.