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These augmented organisms will be capable of detecting and transmitting real-time data about their own physiological states and the surrounding environment. By leveraging plants’ natural capacities—self-repair, responsiveness, environmental adaptation—we aim to create bio-integrated systems that are not only functional, but sustainable, scalable, and ecologically entangled. The project is structured around two complementary pillars. The first investigates the Sensor-Antenna Plant, developing plant-integrated electronics that convert physiological signals (e.g., changes in water content, ion concentration, or growth) into electromagnetic outputs. Using wearable and implantable devices embedded in or grown within plant tissues, we will explore how electromagnetic propagation is modulated by plant biophysics and how this can be harnessed for sensing and communication. Central to this is the integration of Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) principles, allowing a single plant-based system to monitor and transmit data wirelessly—turning living organisms into nodes of intelligent communication networks. The second pillar explores the Living Plant Network, building systems of interconnected plants and hybrid devices capable of distributed environmental monitoring and adaptive response. By decoding plant-to-plant and plant-to-machine communication, we will develop scalable architectures where a minimal number of digital devices—strategically interfaced with plants—can yield high-resolution, real-time environmental information through biological propagation. This could enable new forms of low-power, adaptive, and resilient infrastructures for agriculture, smart cities, and ecological sensing. Together, these approaches will validate a new technological paradigm in which living organisms are no longer peripheral to digital systems, but central to their operation and evolution. This vision opens the door to a range of high-impact applications—from precision agriculture to urban bioarchitecture—and lays the groundwork for future research in biohybrid intelligence, sustainable computing, and symbiotic design. By merging electromagnetic theory, material science, plant physiology, and interaction design, this project moves beyond biomimicry toward co-evolution: a future where technologies do not just monitor nature, but grow with it.