Dominique Mourelle,^1,2,*,** Paola Gaiero,^3,2,*** Gabriela Speroni,^3,**** Carina Millán,^3,***** Lucía Gutiérrez,^4,****** Cristina Mazzella<sup>3,*******

1</sup>1IIMyC, CONICET. Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nac
²†These authors contributed equally to this work.
³2Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Facultad de Agronomía, Av. Garzón 780, 12900 Montevideo, Universi
⁴3Departamento de Biometría, Estadística y Computación, Facultad de Agronomía, Av. Garzón 780, 12900

^*Corresponding author. Email: dmourelle@mdp.edu.ar/domodica@gmail.com
^**Dominique Mourelle is a palynologist and Quaternary palaeoecologist, and has an MSc in biology. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. Dominique's research interests are on modern pollen-vegetation relationships and vegetational reconstructions using palynology in Uruguay.
^***Paola Gaiero is a botanist with an MSc in agricultural sciences. She is currently a PhD candidate at Wageningen University in The Netherlands. Paola is also a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Agronomy, Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay, working on conservation genetics and comparative cytogenetics and genomics.
^****Gabriela Speroni has a PhD in botany and is a Professor of Botany at the Faculty of Agronomy, Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her principal research interest is on the reproductive biology of economically significant wild plant species.
^*****Carina Millén is a biology student at the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad de la República, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her main research interest is on the native flora of South America, especially the reproductive biology of vascular plants.
^******Lucia Gutiérrez Chacón has a PhD in botany and evolutionary biology from Iowa State University, USA. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Agronomy, Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay, where her main research is on statistical genetics.
^*******Cristina Mazzella has a PhD in biology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. She is currently a professor at the Faculty of Agronomy, Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay, and researches on plant genetics.