How come growing plants aren’t damaged by mold?

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You see tons of timelapses on youtube of people putting fruits and vegetables into ground and filming them grow. Every time the surrounding fruit rots away and gets covered in mold, but the plant starts growing anyway.

I understand that the seeds are very durable, but how come mold doesn’t do any damage to the sapling? Can mold even damage it at all?

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The sapling has an immune system. The mold can damage it but it has to overcome this immune system first.

The rest of the fruit generally does not have an immune system.

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