Exploring the role of lipid transfer in extrahaustorial membrane formation in barley attacked by the powdery mildew fungus, Blumeria hordei

2) The barley LTP2 protein interacts with the VAP proteins in a 'FFAT'-dependent manner Powdery mildew fungi are serious pathogens on numerous plant species.They are obligate biotrophs, and hence require living host cells for disease establishment and development.Thus, they form a specialized feeding structure, called haustoria inside the plant cell.Haustoria are dependent on and surrounded by a plant cell-generated extra-haustorial membrane (EHM), a