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Plant responses to salt stress. Plants cope with the increase in salt concentration in different ways as the time of exposure to stress increases. Three phases are identified: a faster first reaction (minutes/hours) called rapid osmotic phase; one in the order of days/weeks called slow hyperosmotic phase; and a long term exposure (weeks/months) which leads to inhibition of growth and cell death.
