The document discusses several microbial culture collection centres around the world and in India. It provides information on the International Depositary Authorities (IDAs) like the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) and describes some of the major microbial culture collection centres in India including the Microbial Culture Collection (MCC), Microbial Type Culture Collection and Gene Bank (MTCC), National Agriculturally Important Microbial Culture Collection (NAIMCC), and National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms (NCIM). It also outlines the objectives and services provided by these centres.

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2. International Depositary
Authorities (IDAs)
The International Depository Authority of Canada (IDAC) is a patent
depository for microorganisms that has been made possible by
Canada's accession to the Budapest Treaty on the International
Recognition of the Deposit of Micro-Organisms for the Purposes of
Patent Procedure (the Budapest Treaty) on September 21, 1996.

3. IDA
The microbial resource centres having status of IDA mainly accepts and
maintains microorganisms for patenting of work related to live
organisms that have medical, agricultural and other uses. In view of this
an agreement called as Budapest Treaty was passed in 1977 for
deposition of microorganisms in culture collection centres for the
purposes of patent procedure.

4. The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of
Microorganisms for the Purpose of Patent Procedure, signed on April
28, 1977, was amended on September 26, 1980. The Budapest
Treaty eliminates the need to deposit microorganisms in each country
where patent protection is sought

5. American Type Culture
Collection (ATCC)
ATCC or the American Type Culture Collection is a nonprofit
organization which collects, stores, and distributes standard
reference microorganisms, cell lines and other materials for research
and development. Established in 1925 to serve as a national center for
depositing and distributing microbiological specimens, ATCC has since
grown to distribute in over 150 countries. It is now the largest general
culture collection in the world.

6. ATCC's collections include a wide range of biological
materials for research, including cell lines, microorganisms
and bioproducts.
The organization holds a collection of more than 3,000
human and animal cell lines and an additional
1,200 hybridomas.
ATCC's microorganism collection includes a collection of
more than 18,000 strains of bacteria, as well as 3,000
different types of animal viruses and 1,000 plant viruses. In
addition,
ATCC maintains collections of protozoans, yeasts and fungi
with over 7,500 yeast and fungus species and 1,000 strains
of protists.

9. Microbial culture collection
centres
The National Measurement Institute (NMI)
Contact information
Address1/153, Bertie Street - Port Melbourne
VIC 3207Telephone(61-3) 9644 4841E-
mailbudapest.treaty@measurement.gov.auWeb
sitehttp://www.measurement.gov.au
Kind of material accepted
Type:
Bacteria (non-pathogenic)
Fungi (non-pathogenic)
Yeasts (non-pathogenic)

10. INDIA- Microbial culture
collection Centres
India (IN)Microbial Culture Collection (MCC)
Microbial Type Culture Collection and Gene Bank (MTCC)
National Agriculturally Important Microbial Culture Collection
(NAIMCC)

11. MCC
The Microbial Culture Collection, (Now called as National Centre for
Microbial Resource, NCMR) in Pune, is India's microbial culture
collection centre, recognized by World Federation for Culture
Collections (WFCC), and has a status of International Depositary
Authority (IDA).
is registered with the World Data Centre for Microorganisms (WDCM,
registration number 930).

12. actively involved in the research programmes relating to microbial
diversity, metagenomics, ecology and taxonomy, using both classical
and molecular approaches.

14. OBJECTIVES
The centre focuses on basic research in the areas of microbial
diversity, microbial taxonomy, microbial genomics and proteomics etc.
Isolation and identification of microorganisms from various environmental
niches.
Preservation of microbial biodiversity from niche areas
as metagenomic libraries.
Development of new strategies for isolation of "not yet cultured" microbes.
To provide consultation services for patent deposits, preservation,
propagation, biodeterioration, industrial problems, biosystematics and
microbial biodiversity issues etc.
To serve as national facility for microbial culture collection, deposit and the
supply of authentic microbial cultures.
To serve as an International Depositary Authority (IDA).
To establish and conduct workshops, seminars, symposia and training
programmes in the area of microbial identification, preservation and advanced
areas of microbial taxonomy and phylogeny.

15. MTCC
Search the MTCC catalogue and order cultures online
https://mtccindia.res.in › catalog
https://mtccindia.res.in/services/detail_id:1

16. MTCC
The Microbial Type Culture Collection and Gene Bank (MTCC), a national
facility established in 1986 is funded jointly by the Department of
Biotechnology (DBT) and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR), Government of India. The MTCC, housed at the Institute of Microbial
Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh, has established itself as a distinguished
culture collection centre for microbial resources in India.
It is an affiliate member of the World Federation for Culture Collections
(WFCC) and is registered with the World Data Centre for Microorganisms
(WDCM).
The main objectives of this national facility are to act as a depository, to supply
authentic microbial cultures and to provide related services to the scientists
working in research institutions, universities and industries.
The MTCC was recognized by the World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO), Geneva, Switzerland

18. MTCC
Since its inception, MTCC has strived to fulfill its objectives giving utmost
importance to the needs of the customers by providing quality services.
MTCC has about 20,000 microbial cultures (actinomycetes, bacteria, fungi,
yeasts and plasmids) in its collections.
The collections include the microbial type strains of several taxa, strains used
for teaching purposes, genetic stock, cultures used for various testing etc.
More than 80% of the microbial cultures available in MTCC are of Indian origin
and from various ecological niches of India. Over the past 25 years, MTCC has
established itself as a distinguished culture collection centre for microbial
resources in India.
It has a database of about 10,000 customers who consult MTCC for various
activities related to microbiology.

19. Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) under the aegis of Department of
Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), Government of India established
ICAR- National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms (ICAR-
NBAIM) in the year 2001 for collection, maintenance, conservation and supply
of agriculturally important microorganisms (AIMs) all over the country. A
landmark development of ICAR-NBAIM was the establishment of NAIMCC
(National Agriculturally Important Microbial Culture Collection) in the year
2004.
National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), Ministry of Environment, Forests
and Climate Change, Govt. of India recognized ICAR-NBAIM culture
collection (NAIMCC) as one of the national repositories of India. At
present, NAIMCC is holding more than 7000 microbial accessions
including fungi, bacteria, actinomycetes and cyanobacteria.

21. NAIMCC has state-of-art facilities for the maintenance, conservation and
characterization of microorganisms. AIMs are preserved and maintained by
at least two methods depending on type of microorganisms, i.e. short-term
preservation through storage of microbial cultures in glycerol stock at -80ºC
(fungi & bacteria) and mineral soil (fungi); long term storage through
lyophilization and cryopreservation. Cyanobacterial cultures are exclusively
being maintained by cultivation under active culture.
NAIMCC will be the third IDA of the country
Currently, NAIMCC holds accessions of 6907 AIMs including
2595 bacteria, 3981 fungi and 331 cyanobacteria.

22. Currently, NAIMCC is providing following services to cater the need of all
stakeholders:
General Deposit of Microorganisms
Safe Deposit of Microorganisms
Registration of elite microbes
Patent Deposits of Microorganisms
Supply of microbial cultures

23. Director
ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms
Kushmaur, Mau Nath Bhanjan – 275103 (U.P.) India
Phone : 0547-2970727,
Fax : 0547- 2970727
Email – director.nbaim@icar.gov.in
www.nbaim.icar.gov.in

25. National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms (NCIM) is a national facility
and microbial culture repository dedicated to isolation, preservation and
distribution of authentic and industrially important microbial strains.
Established in 1951, the NCIM is one of the oldest biological resource
centers holding especially industrially important microorganisms in the
country.
Collection holding currently comprises almost 5000 items, including
Bacteria, Fungi, Actinomycetes, Yeasts and Algae.
The research of the NCIM focuses on microbial diversity, ecology
and the underlying evolutionary mechanisms (genome
evolution, metagenomics), improved methods for the access
and ex situ preservation of biodiversity and, molecular
mechanisms of biological interactions.

26. Reference:
• Fundamentals and Principles of Industrial Microbiology -
Agarwal and Parker.
• Food microbiology, forth edition, William C Frazier, Dennis C
Westhoff.
• Fundamentals of Food Microbiology, Fifth edition, Bibek Roy ,
Arun Bhunia.
• Morden Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, Nduka
Okafor .