response to salt stress

Term ID

GO:0009651

Synonyms

response to ionic osmotic stress
salinity response

Definition

Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of a stimulus indicating an increase or decrease in the concentration of salt (particularly but not exclusively sodium and chloride ions) in the environment.

References

Ontology

GO: Biological Process QuickGO AmiGO

Relationships

is a type of: response to osmotic stress

response to osmotic stress Show first 5 Terms
has subtype: cellular response to salt stress hyperosmotic salinity response hypotonic salinity response response to anion stress response to cation stress

cellular response to salt stress hyperosmotic salinity response hypotonic salinity response response to anion stress response to cation stress Show first 5 Terms
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of response to salt stress

negative regulation of response to salt stress Show first 5 Terms
positively regulated by: positive regulation of response to salt stress

positive regulation of response to salt stress Show first 5 Terms
regulated by: regulation of response to salt stress

regulation of response to salt stress Show first 5 Terms

Phenotype

Phenotype caused by Genes