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Researchers have developed a potentially weighty new tool in the fight against deficiencies in dietary vitamin A, which reason eye diseases, including blindness, in 40 million children annually, and increased health risks in behalf of approximately 250 million people, mostly in developing countries. This tool consists of "a new method of analyzing the genetic makeup of corn that will enable developing countries to identify and spread cultivation of corn that has inherently acute levels of vitamin A precursors," says Ed Buckler, a co-leader of the up on team from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service and Cornell University........