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Yeast Peptone Dextrose Liquid Media

Our yeast extract, peptone, and dextrose (YPD) media provides a dependable growth medium for yeast and fungal cultures. We offer a wide range of YPD broth, including YPD, YPAD, YM, YP, YPG, and more for strain maintenance, biomanufacturing, and genetic research.
Yeast Peptone Dextrose Liquid Media
What is YPD media?

Yeast extract, peptone, and dextrose (YPD) liquid media is a widely used growth media in microbiology, providing essential nutrients for the cultivation of yeast and fungal strains. It is formulated with yeast extract and peptone to supply essential nitrogen, amino acids, vitamins, and growth factors, with dextrose serving as an easily utilized carbon and energy source. Several variations on YPD broth are used across the industry, including yeast extract and peptone (YP), YM (which includes malt extract), and yeast extract, peptone, and galactose (YPG).

 

We offer a broad range of YPD, YP, YM, and YPG liquid media, as well as YPD with additives to support auxotrophic strains and those sensitive to osmotic changes. These products support basic research, QC, environmental testing, and biomanufacturing in academic and industrial settings.

Why choose our YPD media?

Our ready-to-use YPD, YPAD, and other YP-based liquid media are formulated with high-quality yeast extract, peptone, and dextrose to support rapid and robust yeast growth. These liquid formulations are optimized for consistent performance in suspension culture, making them well-suited for routine yeast cultivation, transformation, protein expression, and fermentation workflows across a wide range of yeast species.

 

We manufacture YPD liquid media using rigorous quality control processes to ensure accuracy, sterility, and lot-to-lot consistency across our extensive selection of formulations. Our pre-prepared liquid media eliminates preparation time and reduces variability, delivering reproducible results in applications ranging from basic culturing and strain maintenance to process development and biomanufacturing research. This reliability makes our YPD liquid media a dependable choice from early-stage R&D through scale-up and QC environments.

 

If you don’t see the YPD or other liquid broth you need, talk to our team about our custom manufacturing capabilities, including modified formulations, peptones, carbon sources, fill volumes, container formats, or additives. This flexibility allows you to tailor YPD liquid media to your specific requirements while maintaining the same high standards of quality, performance, and convenience.

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All our products are fully customizable, from formulation to format to fill volume. Our experts can help find the ideal solution for your application and efficiently manufacture your custom product.

Frequently asked questions

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Yeast extract, peptone, and dextrose (YPD) media is a rich, non-selective growth medium formulated to support the rapid growth of yeast and fungi and high biomass production by supplying essential nutrients, amino acids, vitamins, and an easily metabolized carbon source. It is widely used for routine yeast culturing, strain maintenance, QC, and biomanufacturing in academic and industrial settings.

Our YPD liquid media is supplied ready-to-use, eliminating the need for media preparation and reducing variability and contamination risk. To prepare YPD liquid media yourself, dissolve yeast extract, peptone, and dextrose in water, then sterilize to ensure sterility.

YPD contains yeast extract, peptone, and dextrose and is the standard medium for rapid yeast growth and general culturing. YPAD builds on YPD by adding adenine to support the growth of adenine auxotrophs, while YM media includes malt extract and is often used for broader yeast and fungal cultivation. YPG replaces dextrose with galactose as the carbon source to induce GAL-regulated gene expression, perform strain QC, or for routine growth.

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