1.   If everything went as planned, they could use the empty coat proteins as a vaccine.

2.   The squash also posed the risk that its virus genes or the coat proteins they produced might interact with other viruses to produce new diseases.

3.   They found that the key to success is the stage when the Gol viral coat protein clings to EF-Tu, changing its shape in some subtle way.

4.   A bit of this coat protein is enough to suggest that a virus is already present in the plant.

5.   Coat protein is structural material that makes up the virus particle but does not include the poison which kills the plant.