If a plant is placed in salt water what will most likely happen to the cells of the plant?

Answer 1

If you give plants that are adapted to living on land water that is very salty, it will reverse the osmotic potential in their roots and actually cause water to be removed from the cells of the plant and make them shrivel up, thus leading the plant to experience drought stress even if the soil is moist. A similar process is what causes cucumbers to turn into pickles when they are soaked in brine and vinegar.

There are however, plants that are adapted to salty soil and saltwater. These plants have much more effective water intake systems that can overcome this reversal in osmotic potential provided that the salt concentration in the water isn't too high. Seaweed, for example, has a very high salt tolerance. Plants such as Alkali Sacaton and Russian Thistle have a somewhat lower salt tolerance than seaweed, but a higher one than your typical ornamental plant that you may have at home.

Answer 2

In short, it will most likely die. There is the possibility that it will survive for a little while, but the salt will at some point lead to its death.

Answer 3

they both grow but the one that has salt grows slower than the other plant

...although if you add enough salt, the plant will die.

Answer 4

It dies when you give it salt water and when you give it fresh water it live.

Answer 5

Salt sucks the water out of plant tissues and kills the plant.

Answer 6

They will all shrink and the plant iself will wilt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SooSsKkJo1o

Answer 7

your plant will die

Answer 8

it grows slower

Answer 9

If you were to give a plant salt water it damages the roots and causes it to die where as fresh water helps the plant grow.