The pathogen is able to infect all meristematic tissues of the plant, including vegetative flushes, flower cushions, single flowers, and pods. On vegetative flushes and cushion flowers, it causes symptoms known as ‘‘brooms ” , which are hyperplasic and hypertrophic branches caused by the hormonal imbalances induced by the pathogen . Infected flowers may result in parthenocarpic strawberry- and/or banana-shaped pods whereas infection of developed pods show necrotic lesions on the surface and rotten beans in the interior (Silva et al., 2002). Basidiospores produced inside the mushroom-like basidiocarps formed on the surface of all dead, infected tissues are the only infective propagule that occurs in nature (Silva et al., 2002).