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No. All plants do respond to salt to some extent, but the degree to which they do so varies dramatically.

The most important way in which a plant responds to salt (specifically a salty solution) is the degree to which the plant's interior tends to lose water to its environment when the plant is in a solution whose salt concentration (salinity) exceeds its interior salt concentration. The process by which this water is lost is called osmosis.

Specifically, plants that are well-adapted to living in salty environments will lose less water to the surrounding environment through osmosis relative to a plant that is well-adapted to living in freshwater environments (with the precise concentration gradient of salts between the interior of the plant and the exterior being the control variable).

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