Culture Collections in Japan and their Services

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  • Nagai Toshirou
    Genetic Resources Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
  • Uehara-Ichiki Tamaki
    Genetic Resources Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
  • Sawada Yukihiro
    Genetic Resources Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
  • Sato Toyozo
    Genetic Resources Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
  • Aoki Takayuki
    Genetic Resources Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
  • Yamasaki Fukuhiro
    Genetic Resources Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
  • Takeya Masaru
    Genetic Resources Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
  • Uzuhashi Shihomi
    Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta
  • Hirooka Yuuri
    Department of Forest Microbiology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
  • Tomioka Keisuke
    Western Region Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

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  • 日本のカルチャーコレクションとその業務
  • ニホン ノ カルチャーコレクション ト ソノ ギョウム

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Culture collections (CCs) are organizations that mainly collect strains of microorganisms to stably preserve or maintain them and distribute them to users. There are 23 CCs in Japan ; these are mainly established in universities and national institutes, and contain a total of 411 183 strains of preserved microorganisms (191 692 bacteria, 50 799 yeasts, 49 380 fungi and others), accounting for 20 % of strains preserved in CCs around the world. CCs also store information on their microorganism collections (species, location and origin of isolation, and growth conditions) in databases. These primary data for the identification of strains are open to the public via the Internet, and users can retrieve the data using searching systems offered by the CCs instead of using paper-based catalogs. In CCs, deposited microorganisms are cultured and, depending on the microbial group, freeze-drying or other freezing methods are used to prepare the microorganisms for distribution. At regular intervals, survival tests are carried out to check the quality of the preparations. In addition, CCs offer services other than distribution of their collections, such as e-mail newsletters, workshops on the handling of microorganisms, booklets on the microorganisms, and safety-deposit services for users’ collections.

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