“…Although binding affinities for IAA, NAA and 2,4-D for all known auxin co-receptor combinations are unknown, available biochemical data for TIR1–IAA7 and AFB5–IAA7 show that NAA and 2,4-D have similar binding affinities for each of the co-receptors, which are only half of that of the natural auxin IAA ( Lee et al , 2014 ), implying a generally weaker binding for NAA and 2,4-D than for IAA. However, NAA and 2,4-D often appear to be more effective than IAA in terms of induction of developmental responses ( Skůpa et al , 2014 ; Peterson et al , 2016 ), because both are less metabolized and 2,4-D is also less exported, as discussed above. Another interesting physiological difference between IAA and 2,4-D is that 2,4-D shows the highest activity on promoting cell division in suspension culture-grown tobacco BY-2 cells among the 12 auxinic compounds tested, including IAA, which surprisingly shows no stimulatory effect at all ( Simon et al , 2013 ).…”