detection of osmotic stimulus

id: GO:0043575
name: detection of osmotic stimulus
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The series of events in which a stimulus indicating an increase or decrease in the concentration of solutes outside the organism or cell is received and converted into a molecular signal.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0006970response to osmotic stress
GO:0009582detection of abiotic stimulus