Term Information

Accession
PO:0005661
Name
salt gland
Ontology
plant_anatomy
Synonyms
glándula de sal (Spanish, exact), 塩腺 (Japanese, exact)
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
A specialized tissue where excess salt absorbed in water from the soil is concentrated, being stores or excreted. Source: Gramene:Pankaj_Jaiswal, ISBN:0471245208
Comment
A crust of salt forms on leaves which tastes bad and the white surfaces act to reflect light. Example, as is Mangrove vegetation.
Subset
None
Feedback
Comments, changes to terms, or requests for new ontology terms can be made at PO issue tracker on GitHub.

Filter results

Loading...
pending...
Parents of salt gland (PO:0005661)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
salt gland [is_a relation] is_a  portion of secretory tissue (PO:0005656)

This term has no children.

None.