• Brown sunken lesions with dark red margins develop on the stem.
• Many lesions rapidly merge to girdle stems, branches, peduncles and petiole.
• Elongated lesions appear on the leaf veins and tannish red spots with yellow halo on the leaf surface.
• Lesions similar to those found on the stem also occur on pods .
• Severely affected pods are curled and do not contain normal size seeds.

Select 25 plants at random and observe for typical fresh symptoms.