Term Name: response to salt stress
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.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0009651]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
is a type of: response to osmotic stress
has subtype: cellular response to salt stress hyperosmotic salinity response hypotonic salinity response response to anion stress response to cation stress
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of response to salt stress
positively regulated by: positive regulation of response to salt stress
regulated by: regulation of response to salt stress