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Deployment of advanced tools for trait improvement is imperative to sustain and improve the productivity of food crops. However, over-dependence on rice, wheat, and maize for catering to the nutritional requirements of more than 80% of the population turns out to be a bottleneck in addressing food and nutritional securities. Minor millets, otherwise called nutri-cereals, serve as better alternatives to major staples owing to their nutritional superiority to rice, wheat, and maize. Small millets possess better adaptability to the environmental conditions, higher market value due to their taste, texture, and nutritional properties, and require minimal agricultural inputs for producing these crops. Despite these merits, significantly less research has been pursued on these crops to study the beneficial traits. Dissecting the molecular determinants of climate-resilient traits will provide insights into the mechanisms underlying these …