1Institute of Horticulture，Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences，Harbin 150069，Heilongjiang，China；2College of Pharmacy，Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine，Guiyang 550025，Guizhou，China；3College of Horticulture，China Agricultural University，Beijing 100193，China
Abstract：‘Longjiao 16’is a new three-line hybrid pepper developed by crossing male sterility line‘A09-87’as female parent，‘B5-87’as maintainer line，and selfing line‘C09-13’as male parent．It is of mid-early maturity，and takes about 105 days from seedling germination to first harvest．The plant has strong growth vigor，and is 70-90 cm in height．Its continuous fruit setting ability is strong．The fruit can expand rapidly and is of cow horn shape．The fruit is 26-32 cm in length，and about 6 cm in shoulder width．The single fruit weight is about 120 g．The ripe fruit is light green in color and old ripe fruit is red in color．The VC content is 1 468.10 mg · kg-1．It is tolerant to low temperature，resistant to anthrax，scab，powdery mildew and virus disease，moderate resistant to Phytophthora．It can yield about 61.5 t · hm-2．It is suitable for planting in open fields of Heilongjiang region．
