National Collection of Yeast Cultures
National Collection of Yeast Cultures | |
National Collection of Yeast Cultures shown within Norfolk
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OS grid reference | TG183077 |
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– London | 115 miles |
Civil parish | Colney |
District | South Norfolk |
Shire county | Norfolk |
Region | East |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United 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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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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