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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Pollinator colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am excited to be co-editing a Research Topic on pollen as food for bees – including the whole range of wild bees as well as managed bees – for the scientific journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You can see the description of the Research Topic here:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/18973">https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/18973</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The “Frontiers in…” journals are open access journals, committed to rapid and efficient reviewing and electronic publication of manuscripts. There is an article processing fee, but you may be able to have the fee waived through your institution,
or you can apply for a fee waiver with manuscript submission.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you have work in progress on any aspect of this topic, including diversity of plant sources of pollen, nutritional aspects of pollen, chemical or biological contamination, or the pollen microbiome, please consider this as a possible
outlet for your publication.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You can make express an interest in contributing through this link:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#6F6F6F"><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frontiersin.org%2Fresearch-topics%2F18973%2Fpollen-as-food-for-bees-diversity-nutrition-and-contamination%2Fparticipate-in-open-access-research-topic%3Faffilateid%3D1f179a5a-3757-409e-9dd6-27988e0cfec2&data=04%7C01%7CKimberly.Stoner%40ct.gov%7C28bfab706b4e48fb7f3708d8c25ac3d6%7C118b7cfaa3dd48b9b02631ff69bb738b%7C0%7C0%7C637473042388327487%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=neTgXQIO4O2IH3mkXXg0B5YMWzNKX5K8w931X5tpcMc%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/18973/pollen-as-food-for-bees-diversity-nutrition-and-contamination/participate-in-open-access-research-topic?affilateid=1f179a5a-3757-409e-9dd6-27988e0cfec2</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#6F6F6F">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#6F6F6F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#6F6F6F">Kimberly Stoner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#6F6F6F">Agricultural Scientist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#6F6F6F">Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://portal.ct.gov/CAES/Publications/Publications/Pollinator-Information">https://portal.ct.gov/CAES/Publications/Publications/Pollinator-Information</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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