The CIRM-Levures yeast collection is a Biological Resource Center dedicated to yeasts involved in food fermentations (winemaking, bakery, brewery, dairy technology and other fermentation industries). It also preserves yeast strains from various geographical origins (French Guiana, the Reunion and Mayotte islands, Arctic glaciers...).
CIRM-Levures preserves over 5,000 isolates (2159 visible in the catalogue) characterized taxonomically using various molecular makers, belonging to 398 species from 75 genera of the Saccharomycotina subphylum and to the Basidiomycota phylum. Today, CIRM-Levures keeps on increasing its holdings during collaborative projects and field collection all over France, in metropolitan and overseas departments.