Journal of Xi’an Shiyou University, Natural Science Edition ISSN: 1673-064X http://xisdxjxsu.asia VOLUME 19 ISSUE 01 JANUARY 2023 599-604 Role of Mycorrhizae in Nutrient Acquisition in Relation to NPK Fertilizers: A Review Muhammad Nauman Khan 1,2*, Danyal Ahmad 3 , Hafsa Arif 3 , Sana Wahab 4 , Sidra Iqbal 4 , Faisal Zaman 1 , Maryam Bibi 5 , Farah Mabood 6 , Sara Abdul Razak 7 , Amjad Ali 8 , Fethi Ahmet Ozdemir 9 1 Department of Botany, Islamia College Peshawar, 25120, Pakistan 2 Biology Laboratory, Agriculture University Public School & College for Boys, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, 25130, Pakistan 3 Department of Botany, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan 4 Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan 5 Department of Botany, University of Malakand, Chakdara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan 6 Department of Botany, Qurtaba University of Science and Information Technology Hayat Abad, Peshawar, Pakistan 7 Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 8 Department of Sustainable Crop Production, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Via Emilia, Parmense 84, Italy 9 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Art, Bingol University, 12000, Bingol, Turkey Abstract- Although AM is known to increase the uptake of phosphorus in plants, they are also beneficial for other minerals. As a result, it's becoming clearer that they promote the uptake of other nutrients. To increase the nutritional value of the food we consume; some cultures can form an AM symbiont. Whether or not some AM fungal isolates can obtain nutrients from their hosts or which nutrients are affected by AM symbiosis is still unknown. Because they enable plants to grow and develop in harsh mineral environments, AMFs are advantageous to plants. They can also increase the amount of soil nutrients due to the AMF ability that plants can use compared to the roots alone. The effects of AMF are examined in this article on increasing/decreasing the uptake of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in nutrient cycling, mineral acquisition, uptake of nitrogen, and additional phosphorous to improve crop nutrient quality and increase plant nitrogen uptake by soil communities and mycorrhizal fungi. Our studies show that AM fungal identity can be influenced by many nutrients in addition to phosphorus, but the direction and magnitude of this response are the characteristics of the host plant and soil nutrients. The host plant's characteristics and the soil's nutrient status also have an impact. This review is the first ever record that no such work is still available so far on the role of mycorrhizae in nutrient acquisition under the NPK fertilizers. Index Terms- AM fungi, nutrients acquisition, nitrogen, host plants, microbial activity, and symbiosis I. INTRODUCTION rbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) associations in Nutrients cycling Numerous interactions involving soil microbial populations have an impact on the transport of macronutrients and micronutrients in ecosystems. The Arbuscular mycorrhizal community (AM) plays a significant role in the distribution of this nutrient by participating in microbial activity and acquiring phytonutrients (1,2). Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and many plant roots often form a beneficial symbiosis, allowing them to survive and grow well under severe mineral stress (3,4). A plant's root is connected to the microhabitats around it by radical extra mycelium, increasing the amount of soil used by host plants (5). Plants can survive in areas depleted of water and nutrients. Compared to roots mycorrhizal hyphae carry mineral nutrients across longer ways from exhausted regions. Therefore, roots that colonized AM may have higher uptake of immobile micro and macro nutrition under situations of under nutrition conditions (6). Moreover, the roots of mycorrhiza not only grow in length but also change the structure of the root. However, under nutrient- rich conditions, less mineral accumulation was observed in AM plants (7). 1.2 Mineral acquisition by arbuscular mycorrhizal plants Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are beneficial to plants because they enable them to produce and survive in mineral- heavy environments. This is mainly due to AMF ability to increase the amount of soil that makes mineral nutrients available to plants compared to those in contact with the root. The effect of AMF can decrease/ increase the intake of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) in plants. N, Zn, P, and Cu are the most enriched nutrients for host plants growing in many soils (e.g., high and low soil pH) whereas K, Ca, and Mg are enriched when plants grow in acidic soils. Many AMFs also can enhance Al and Mn toxicity in acidic soils grown plants (3). As a result, three species of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi were studied by Clark and Zeto (3) in acidic and alkaline soil at various concentrations of (N, P, and K). The study revealed that nitrogen and potassium are present in high amounts in Glomus etunicatum while phosphorous content is reduced in G. etunicatum in acidic soil, followed by Glomus diaphanum in which N and K are improved but no effect of P. In Glomus intraradices concentration of K is abundant, N concentration was enhanced and no effect of P in acidic soil. Similarly in alkaline soil, it was reported that P concentration was present in high amounts, N and K were enhanced in G. etunicatum, and there is no effect of NPK in Glomus diaphanum in alkaline soil and Glomus intraradices showed a significant result as only N was enhanced, P was 1.1 A