At Vivent, we believe that plants are active participants in their environments, constantly sensing, signaling, and adapting. Our latest publication, from Nigel Wallbridge, Andrew Eckford, Fatih Gulec and Hamdan Awan highlights how communication theory, combined with AI and IoT, can help decode these complex interactions within the phytobiome; the interconnected network of plants, soil, microbes, and atmosphere.

In this paper, we propose:

• A multi-scale communication framework for modeling molecular and electrophysiological plant signals.
• How plants’ own communication networks can inform smart irrigation and targeted agrochemical delivery.
• A bridge between molecular communication, plant electrophysiology, and smart agriculture, leading to more efficient, sustainable, and resilient farming systems.

By merging biophysics, machine learning, and plant science, this research advances the idea that plants themselves can guide agricultural decision-making — a vision central to Vivent’s mission of harnessing biosignals for sustainable food production.