Profile: Marine Hydrocolloids is a manufacturer & exporter of agar agar, agarose, culture media ingredients and natural biopolymers. Agar Agar as a culture media is widely used for practically all pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria and fungi because it is not easy to metabolize and has a good gel firmness, elasticity, clarity and stability. Because of its high gellifying power and its vegetable origin, Agar Agar constitutes a natural non-toxic matrix for the formation of culture media in Microbiology. The major application of Agar Agar is in the field of plant tissue culture. The growing interest in tissue culture as a standard method for the propagation of orchids and other ornamental plants, vegetables ,fruits and other agricultural products has increased the demand for Agar Agar.