“…For instance, exogenous IAA reduces the herbivory-induced accumulation of nicotine and jasmonates (Baldwin et al, 1997;Baldwin, 1989), gene expression of jasmonate-dependent proteinase inhibitors genes (Kernan and Thornburg, 1989), and vegetative storage proteins (DeWald et al, 1994;Liu et al, 2005). Conversely, IAA promotes the production of phenolics and flavonoids in root cell cultures in a dose-dependent manner (Lulu et al, 2015;Mahdieh et al, 2015) and the auxin homolog 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid acts as a strong inducer of defense responses in rice (Oryza sativa; Xin et al, 2012;Song, 2014).…”