This paper presents a quality record of rye-grass seeds produced in Rio Grande do Sul or imported from other countries. It refers to the presence of weeds in ryegrass during 1978 and 1979. These record were obtained in the Analysis Bulletins at the Seed Analysis Laboratory of the Instituto de Pesquisas Agronômicas (IPAGRO) Rio Grande do Sul°Brasil and in those from other institutions. This State produced 74% of 2.319 t analysed seeds and 26% come from other places in 1978. In 1979 4.772 t were registred, 99,6% from here and 0,4% from outside. The percentage of ryegrass seeds contaminated with weed seeds produced in the State, in 1978, were 61,5% and 45,6% in the imported seeds. In 1979 these values were 60,0% and 29,4%, respectively. The commonest seeds of weed species that were found among the samples, in the seeds produced at Rio Grande do Sul, in 1978 were: Silene gallica, Setaria geniculata, Anthemis cotula, Digitaria adscendens and Echinochloa spp. In 1979 the weeds were: Amaranthus spp, Silene gallica and Setaria geniculata. In seeds imported from other countries we found, in 1978, Sida spp and Rumex spp; in 1979 Setaria geniculata, Echinochloa spp and Solanum spp.
ryegrass; weed seeds