Brenda Faulkner Shore (née Slade, 30 November 1922 – 18 June 1993) was a New Zealand botanist who attained the rank of Associate Professor before she retired in 1983.
in botany in 1949 with a thesis entitled Comparative anatomy of the cladode in New Zealand brooms, in which she was supervised by Geoff Baylis.
[2][4] In 1952 Shore was awarded a Fellowship by the Federation of University Women, the first member of the New Zealand branch to gain one.
The fellowship allowed her to undertake postgraduate study at Cambridge University, where she enrolled at Newnham College and in 1954 completed a PhD entitled Development of dicotyledonous leaves with special reference to their venation.
At Duke she worked with Jane Philpott on leaf development and lectured on plant anatomy and morphogenesis.
[2] Shore also painted plants, and was an accomplished member of the Otago Art Society, holding a solo exhibition at Abernethy's Gallery in Dunedin in 1982.