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).