The MetaQuestion web app offers curated questions addressing plant health and applied plant ecology. It makes the PlantQuest catalog of questions available in a flexible form for organizers of expert knowledge elicitation. Organizers can select among questions in the catalog, modify them as needed, and generate an instrument customized to their elicitation project. MetaQuestion makes available questions specialized for the study of invasive species such as pathogens and arthropod pests, such as geographic analyses of prevalence and network analysis of the movement of plant materials.
The MetaQuestion web app is part of the R2M Plant Health Toolbox, for rapid risk assessment to support mitigation of plant pathogens and pests
Fontan, R., C. M. Perez, A. Adhikari, R. A. Mouafo-Tchinda, A. I. Plex Sulá, J. Robledo, B. A. Etherton, M. Choudhary, M. A. Sarwar, Z. Afzal Naveed and K. A. Garrett. 2025. MetaQuestion: A web application for expert knowledge elicitation addressing plant health and applied plant ecology. arXiv:2509.19393 [open access link]
Information about the web app will be available soon in GitHub
For more information about expert knowledge elicitation supporting plant health:
Robledo, J.*, A. I. Plex Sulá*, L. G. Jaworski, R. A. Mouafo-Tchinda, K. F. Andersen Onofre, S. Thomas-Sharma, and K. A. Garrett. 2025. Expert knowledge elicitation: Accessing the big data in experts’ brains. Phytopathology [First Look link].