| CP | coat protein |
| CRISPR | Cluster Regularly Interspersed Short Palindromic Repeats |
| CVP | chimeric virus particle |
| EPRE | Endogenous Pararetriviral Elements |
| GM | genetically modified |
| GMP | Good Manufacturing Practices |
| HDR | homologous-derived repair |
| NHEJ | nonhomologous end-joining repair |
| Ntab | Nicotiana tabacum |
| PAM | Protospacer Adjacent Motif |
| PEG | polyethylene glycol |
| sgRNA | single guide RNA |
| TPV | tobacco Pararetrovirus-like sequence |
| TVCV | Turnip vein-clearing virus |
| VLP | virus-like particle |