“…Its aim is to release cultivars producing high-quality apples, well suited to the Polish agroclimatic conditions and resistant to the most important diseases and pests. Several dessert apple cultivars such as Fantazja, Alwa, Redkroft, and Ligol, and also three V f scab-resistant cultivars-Free Redstar, Melfree, and Gold Milenium (earlier tested under the name 'Early Freegold') have been released (Przyby1a et al, 2009;Rejman, 1994;_ Zurawicz et al, , 2013. Of this group of cultivars, recently Alwa and Ligol are cultivated commercially, and the scabresistant cultivars mentioned above are just being introduced into commercial production of apples in Poland.…”