Dr. Orarat Mongkolporn is a professor in Horticulture, Kasetsart University of Thailand, with over 20 years of experience in chili breeding especially for anthracnose resistance. Orarat finished her PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1998. Since then, her research has been focused on chili breeding for anthracnose resistance, which involves genetics, genomics and host-pathogen interaction. Well-known finding is differential anthracnose reaction affected by chili genotypes, fruit maturity stages, and pathogen pathotypes.