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CONCLUSIONS: This review discusses the Finger millet\'s rich nutritional profile, bioactive potential, and industrial applications, combined with its climate resilience, which make it a promising crop for enhancing food security and promoting sustainable agriculture. This review also highlights its significant potential to address malnutrition and mitigate climate change impacts. The emergence of Finger millet from \"poor man\'s staple food\" to \"a nutrient rich cereal\" has encouraged the need to explore this crop at a wider scale. It is a highly significant crop due to its rich nutritional and bioactive profile, diverse biological activities, and promising industrial applications, along with the high climate resilience. This comprehensive review evaluates its nutritional composition by comparing favorably with other cereals and millets and emphasizing its potential to address malnutrition and enhance food security. Furthermore, it explores the phytochemical/bioactive potential and strategies to enhance their bioavailability followed biological activities of Finger millet by highlighting its various health-promoting properties. The review also discusses industrial potential of finger millet including its role in nutraceutical and functional food production, as well as bioenergy generation. In addition, role of Finger millet as a climate-resilient crop; specifically, the available genetic resources and identification of genes and quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with major stress tolerance traits have also been discussed. By providing a comprehensive synthesis of existing knowledge, this study offers valuable insights for researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders engaged in efforts to promote sustainable agriculture, enhance food and nutrition security, and mitigate the impacts of climate change.
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结论：这篇综述讨论了小米手指丰富的营养成分，生物活性潜力，和工业应用，结合其气候恢复力，这使其成为增强粮食安全和促进可持续农业的有希望的作物。本综述还强调了其在解决营养不良和减轻气候变化影响方面的巨大潜力。从“穷人的主食”到“营养丰富的谷物”的出现，促使人们有必要在更广泛的范围内探索这种作物。由于其丰富的营养和生物活性特征，它是一种非常重要的作物，多样的生物活动，和有前途的工业应用，以及高的气候适应力。这项全面的审查通过与其他谷物和小米进行比较，并强调其解决营养不良和增强粮食安全的潜力，来评估其营养成分。此外，它探讨了植物化学/生物活性潜力和策略，以提高其生物利用度，然后通过强调其各种健康促进特性的手指小米的生物活性。该评论还讨论了手指小米的工业潜力，包括其在营养和功能性食品生产中的作用，以及生物能源生产。此外,小米作为气候适应作物的作用；特别是，还讨论了与主要胁迫耐受性性状相关的可用遗传资源以及基因和数量性状基因座（QTL）的鉴定。通过提供现有知识的全面综合，这项研究为研究人员提供了宝贵的见解，政策制定者，和利益攸关方参与促进可持续农业的努力，加强粮食和营养安全，减轻气候变化的影响。
