National Collection of Yeast Cultures

National Collection of Yeast Cultures
National Collection of Yeast Cultures
 National Collection of Yeast Cultures shown within Norfolk
OS grid referenceTG183077
    London  115 miles 
Civil parishColney
DistrictSouth Norfolk
Shire countyNorfolk
RegionEast
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town NORWICH
Postcode district NR4
Dialling code 01603
Police Norfolk
Fire Norfolk
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
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UK
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Coordinates: 52°37′26″N 1°13′28″E / 52.623820°N 1.224523°E / 52.623820; 1.224523

The National Collection of Yeast Cultures (NCYC) is a yeast culture collection, established in 1951,[1] and working under the Budapest Treaty for the storage of over 4,000 yeast cultures.[2] Located at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich, England, since 1980. NCYC is part funded by the UK government but provides a commercial service to identify, store and supply yeast cultures. As well as the traditional baking and brewing yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, this culture collection also contains hundreds of non-pathogenic yeast species. The yeasts are kept frozen under liquid nitrogen or freeze-dried in glass ampoules. To ensure the collection's safety, it is also duplicated and stored off site. Yeasts have been stored and revived successfully decades later.[3]

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