The partial decay rate of the Z boson into bottom quarks constitutes an imp
ortant decay channel. This is mainly due to the virtual presence of the top
quark in the loop diagrams giving rise to correction factors which are qua
dratic in the top quark mass. At one- and two-loop order it turned out that
the leading term in the heavy-top expansion leads to very good approximati
ons to the exact result. In this;work the non-singlet diagrams at O(a(s)(2)
G(F)M(t)(2)) alt considered.